Can I Get in Shape in Just Three Months?
How much weight can you lose in 12 weeks? It’s a question that potentially inbound clients ask personal trainers like myself ‘Can I see good results in just 12 weeks?’ To which I generally answer that with a consistent exercise practice. Of course, that’s not to say that everyone can complete a total body transformation […]
Can N.E.A.T. Help You Burn Body Fat Quicker?
We all know that we need to keep a regular exercise habit. But sometimes it feels like there just aren’t enough hours in the day. Despite our best intentions for many, family life, work and social requirements can make it difficult to exercise consistently much less get the recommended 3 hours of weekly exercise. Of course, […]
How to Get Fit in Your 60s & 70s (A Personal Trainer’s Guide)
Exercise habits in your 60s & 70s are best approached with a view to keeping activity fun and engaging whilst not overly taxing your muscles and central nervous system. By the time we reach our 60s we really have to begin to make a shift away from the aesthetic side of fitness and consider current […]
How to Get Fit In Your 50s
Your 50s are a time when a significant switch to thinking of exercise as an investment in the future would be a smart move. Often simple adaptations to your workouts and making sure that you have all your bases covered can really help you not just stay in great shape but also protect your ability […]
How to Get Fit In Your 20s
When navigated well your twenties can be a very fruitful period of your life, especially when it comes to exercise. It’s a period of life where you’re able to establish the first principles of exercise and healthy living. And the fundamentals will serve you for a lifetime. The major opportunity at this age is that […]
How to Get Fit in Your 30s (A Personal Trainer’s Guide)
In over a decade working as a personal trainer, and as someone writing this article in my thirties, my observation is that the challenges of this decade have far more to do with how we manage the growing pressures of a more responsible life than any tangible descent of our hormones or metabolism. Indeed, I […]
How To Make Exercise A Daily Habit
When trying to achieve impressive results in fitness, it’s going to come down to two things, following the right workout plan and staying consistent with it. The first is pretty easy to solve with a good deal of research or having a personal trainer build a program for you, I’ve actually written a guide to […]
How to Return to Exercise After a Long Break
As an online personal trainer, I often meet people who have been through many cycles of activity vs complete inactivity. This may sound familiar. It’s very common and may be due to any number of reasons outside of one’s control. From interruptions to your schedule, periods of stress and overwhelm or even an illness or […]
How to Build Lean Muscle Mass
When fitness training first piqued my interest as a teenager, the conventional narrative was to spend half of your time ‘bulking’ and the other half ‘cutting’. We really didn’t pay too much mind to the quality of mass gain we were putting on, so long as we were getting bigger. We gave ourselves a licence to eat thousands of calories and almost snarked at cardio, thinking that it would impede our ‘gains’.
Unfortunately this led to a lot of unwanted body fat being accumulated alongside the lean muscle we were working so hard for, which in turn meant really long cuts where we would lose some of that hard earned mass as we dropped body fat. It was a vicious circle.